Datongfang Pan Mansion has been renovated. When Pan Heyi got married, King Chu'an asked people to buy the courtyard next door as a congratulatory gift, and Pan Heyi and his wife Tang lived in a new house in the west courtyard.

Compared with the past, the Pan family has changed greatly, when the Tang family got married, they brought two girls, the Pan family had a pair of father and son clansmen who came to take refuge, the father Pan Pingshou was the housekeeper, and the son Pan and Qi were Pan Heyi's personal followers, and they hired cooks, yard fathers, coachmen and others in the tooth shop, and the Pan family was already an official eunuch.

In the upper room where Pan's mother lived in the East Courtyard, Pan and Yi and Tang came to ask for peace as usual. Pan's mother talked to Tang about the Mid-Autumn Festival, and then asked Pan Heyi: "When are you going to leave for Huazhou?" ”

Tang's brows furrowed, sad face, since she learned that her husband was going to Huazhou to clean up the fields, she couldn't sleep well, and learned from her father that her husband and Jiang Anyi, the envoy of Huazhou, had a grudge between her, this time the Son of Heaven asked Pan Lang to go to Huazhou Qingtian, so Jiang Anyi had to embarrass her husband. But the emperor's order is bad, and Pan Lang can't help but go, which is really sad.

Pan Heyi responded: "As soon as the Mid-Autumn Festival is over, the child will lead the team to leave." My mother should take care of her body at home, and Ling'er should serve her mother well and do her filial piety for me. ”

Tang replied weakly with a "yes", and tears fell down his eyes. Pan Mu shouted with a straight face: "What are you crying about, Yi'er went to serve the country, and he should be happy as his wife." ”

Seeing Tang's head hanging and crying, Pan's mother really didn't like it in her heart, this daughter-in-law was too weak, the most important thing was that she was not pregnant yet, and when Yi'er came back, it was time to marry a concubine for him.

Pan's mother impatiently ordered: "Ling'er, you are weak, go back to the room to rest first, I still have something to say with Yi'er." ”

Waiting for Tang's farewell to leave, Pan's mother said: "Yi'er, this trip to Huazhou seems dangerous, but in fact, there is no obstacles. You were appointed by the Son of Heaven to go to Chatian, even if Jiang Anyi was reluctant to get by on the big side, you can endure the small actions in private first, and when you return to Beijing, you will find an opportunity to mention it to the Son of Heaven. ”

Pan Heyi replied briefly: "The child knows it in his heart. ”

"How are you going to check the acres of land when you arrive in Huazhou?" Pan's mother asked.

Pan Heyi thought for a moment and said: "The child has carefully read the self-inspection situation reported by Huazhou, and there is no omission in the official field and private field. ”

Pan's mother nodded with satisfaction: "It's the same as what I thought for my mother, it seems that I don't need my mother to remind you." However, you can't leave after the Mid-Autumn Festival, you go to report to Lord Huang secretly, and leave for Huazhou tomorrow. ”

Pan Heyi's heart moved, tomorrow is his mother's mind, if he goes to Huazhou with the brigade, Jiang Anyi will definitely be prepared and take precautions against him, Jiang Anyi has a very high prestige in Huazhou, if he does it secretly, it will be difficult to move an inch. If we want to find out the loopholes in Huazhou's fields, we must take advantage of their unpreparedness and go straight to the heart. Tomorrow's departure will be eight days faster than the brigade, it will take a month to travel from the capital to Huazhou to the post station, and the time can be shortened by half through the carriage and horse travel, which can give me half a month to twenty more days, this time difference is enough for me to find out the situation in Huazhou Tuntian.

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The official road from Huazhou to the capital has always been prosperous, and the caravans from the Western Regions have continuously entered the country from Huazhou, and then dispersed to the states of Zhengguo, half of which have merged into the eastern and western cities of the capital. After the customs of Huazhou were spread in the capital through the mouth of the madman Ma Yuanxiang, in addition to the name of Xiangxueju gradually became known, the hot springs in Luobai Mountain drank fruit brew, the sunset of the Hanhai Sea outside Linsha City, and the galloping horses and shooting wild deer on the grassland for thousands of miles have become the things that the wealthy young people in Beijing talk about.

The rise of Huazhou fever has led to the rapid development of the car and horse shops in Huazhou, and Wei Ji has become a beautiful player in the industry. This carriage and horse shop, which has been on the rise for less than ten years, quickly formed a transportation network in Zhengguo with its abundant financial resources, specially made carriages and Wei Kee inns laid along the road.

Pan Heyi took Pan Heqi to board the carriage of Wei Kee Carriage and Horse Company, and the carriage was especially widened and lengthened, and the twelve people sat opposite each other, and they did not feel crowded. From the capital to Huazhou Huiye Mansion, the whole journey is 1,800 miles, the chariots and horses of the official government travel 60 miles a day, it takes a month, and the speed of the carriage of the chariots and horses is twice that of the official government, and it only takes half a month to reach the Huiye Mansion. Each person is only allowed to carry a bag weighing 30 pounds, and if it exceeds this weight, there will be an additional charge, if it is a large amount of goods, the carriage and horse dealer has a special business of carrying goods, and there is a special guard.

There is a banner posted in the Wei Ji carriage and horse shop, "Time is money", it is said that this is Jiang Anyi, the envoy of Huazhou Economic Strategy, Pan Heyi secretly heartbroken, can be praised by the world as the gold hand Jiang Anyi is not in vain.

Pan Heyi calculated, a car of 12 people, 60 taels of silver, planed to eat and shelter, car and horse loss, labor costs and taxes, this trip can earn 20 taels, half a month 20 taels, a month is 40 cars, if the source of customers is sufficient, there is at least 400 taels of income a year, I don't know how many cars and horses there are in Weiji Carriage and Horse Dealers, if it is more than 1,000, there will be 400,000 taels of income a year.

I heard that Wei Ji Che Ma Xing is just a side business of Zhenwei Dart Bureau, the annual income of this dart bureau is at least one million taels, Zhenwei Dart Bureau was just an inconspicuous small dart bureau in Xinqi County, Texas, and it has grown into one of the four major dart games of Zheng Guo in 20 years, and behind the Zhenwei Dart Bureau is Jiang Anyi. Pan Heyi's heart was sour, although he didn't want to admit it, Jiang Anyi was indeed better than himself.

Pan Heyi pretended to be a student who traveled to Huazhou, Pan Heqi was his long-term companion, his position was at the back of the carriage, and a bamboo curtain hung down to block the dust outside the car. With the sound of the whip, the carriage began to move, and Pan Heyi leaned back and leaned on the leather cushion behind him.

The setting of the seats in the carriage has taken a lot of thought, this back cushion is arc-shaped, the back is very close to it, the hot leather cushion exudes coolness, there are armrests on both sides, and a baffle hangs under the armrest, which can be supported to make a simple coffee table, put books, teapots, melons and fruits and other things.

Pan Heyi looked at the passengers in the car, the four students in green shirts gathered together, from their excited words, it can be seen that they are students who have traveled to Huazhou, and it is obviously their entourage who is sitting quietly next to them, Pan Heyi is next to a man in a silk shirt, with two entourage, and one has a gloomy face, his beard seems to have been shaved, and his face is covered with green stubble, sitting at the front of the carriage, with his eyes closed and pretending to sleep.

After the carriage galloped out of the Yanping Gate, one of the four scholars stood up and greeted everyone with a smile: "Xiaosheng's surname is Yang, Yang Deyi; These three are Su Yongzhi, Hua Zhanjia, Shi Linjie, the four of us are the prisoners of Guozijian, this time I took leave to travel to Huazhou, and walked with you all the way, I am deeply honored, and I hope to take care of it. Su, Hua, and Shi also stood up and gestured with smiles on their faces.

The carriage is tall enough to stand up straight. Pan Heyi arched his hand and said: "Little Kelin Tianxiang, I taught a few Mengtong children to spend my days in Beijing, and I heard that the scenery of Huazhou was beautiful, and I intended to go and have a look." "With a population of more than 2 million and hundreds of thousands of people moving around every day, there are so many officials that Pan Heyi doesn't have to worry about being recognized.

The man in silk sat next to Pan Heyi, and when Pan Heyi finished speaking, he got up and said, "In Xia Liu Anjie, go to Huazhou to do some small business, please take care of me." The green beard opened his eyes, said lightly, "Ye Yingnian, a businessman" and closed his eyes again, looking like a stranger. As for Pan and Qi, a few other relatives selectively ignored them.

The carriage went out of the capital, walked on the official road in a balanced way, a few people got the notice of the carriage and horse dealer in advance, set off at the beginning of each day after leaving the city, you are resting, there is half an hour of meal time at noon, five hours a day on the road, if there are three emergencies to tell the coachman, the coachman will find a vacant place for them to solve.

It had been five days since they left the city, and Pan Heyi noticed that they did not enter the city every day, but stayed at the Wei Ji Inn outside the city. The food was quite delicious, the accommodation was for two people, Pan Heyi casually glanced at the more than a dozen carriages parked in the courtyard of the inn, and those coachmen gathered together to chat enthusiastically.

At first, Pan Heyi was worried that the long-distance coachman and horses would be unbearable, but later found that the two horses pulling the cart would change as long as they were tired, and the coachman would change every three days, and he would pass by two Wei Ji inns every day, so that there were at least thirty Wei Ji inns from the capital all the way to Huiye Mansion, Pan Heyi was secretly surprised, if each inn raised six replacement horses, then there were nearly two hundred horses on this road alone, forty or fifty replacement coachmen, and two or three hundred people in the inn. Isn't there more than a thousand horses in the whole Willey Carriage and Horse Company, and the number is more than three thousand, which is not a small number.

On the road the next day, Pan and Yi made a casual offering. Liu Anjie said with a smile: "Mr. Lin's eyes are really sharp, and he can see beyond the reach of others. This is an attachment to the Zhenwei Dart Bureau of the Wei Ke and Horse Dealership, and most of the horses used in the Che and Horse Shop are eliminated by the dart masters. As for the manpower of the carriage and horse shop, some of them are the injured dart masters and executioners who are placed in it, and some are the family members of the dart board. There are several routes of Wei Kee Che Ma Xing, but the route to Huazhou is the best, and the others are far from comparable. ”

Yang Deyi said with a smile: "Emperor Su used troops in the north, snatched tens of thousands of war horses from the north, and occupied 600 miles of land of the desert people. Thousands of horses are replaced every year by the Sixteen Guards in Beijing, and many of those replaced war horses are bought by the dart board. ”

"Not only are there horses in the north, but people from the Western Regions have also sold a lot of horses, and there are several big carriage and horse shops in China, which one does not have thousands of horses." Shi Linjie said. Pan Heyi nodded and was taught, disapproving, this Shi Linjie is a good teacher, and he can know the world without going out, but in fact, he is far inferior to Su Yongzhi around him.

The carriage has entered the territory of Lingzhou, and everyone is already familiar with each other, sometimes passing through the city, and each other will buy some fruits and melons to eat in the car, so even Pan and Qi, the five chiefs, gathered in a circle with him, chatting with each other to pass the time.

Yang Deyi is an idle character, every day in the car is either a thesis or a couplet, occasionally gamble, and add two good dishes for the evening meal. Pan Heyi is dressed as a lifter, Yang Deyi naturally wants to pull him along, Liu Anjie is bold, and he is also funny in it, the poems he chant are full of flaws, but they are funny, and most of the evening meals are paid for by him.

Only that Ye Yingnian, who is incompatible with everyone, closes his eyes every day when he gets in the car, no matter how the people around him laugh, everyone has invited each other a few times, and he politely declined, so he no longer cares, just as he is air.

Pan Heyi paid attention to this Ye Yingnian at first, but later found that this person had to eat all the leftovers on the table when he ate, and he was reluctant to waste a little family, and he couldn't help but feel relieved, this is a small businessman who saves a few pennies to do business.